I have always wanted to do a buzz lightyear costume so this year I went for it and I am sooo glad I did, unfortunately without my woody :/. Everyone LOVED my costume, I didn’t want to take it off! I was at a huge apartment complex near Arizona State University and so many random … Read more
One of my son’s favorite movies is Monsters Inc & Monsters University & his absolute favorite color is green, so I was inspired to make him a Mike Wazowski Halloween costume. Only one problem: I didn’t know how to sew! So I dusted our hand me down sewing machine off from the shelf and got … Read more
My inspiration was Nemo, little curious fish from my our favorite cartoon. I used: foam 1 cm thick, dimensions 1 x 2 m pigment (the one you use to tone wall paint) orange and black spray, newspapers, scissors glue gun I have found Nemo! He was here all along! Tailoring the Foam On newspaper dimension … Read more
Let me preface this by saying I had NO pattern, and NO idea what I was doing. It was a process full of trial and error (a LOT of error). I managed to break 3 sewing machine needles, a bobbin case, I hot glued my finger tips too many times to count, but in the … Read more
It all started with me trying to decide what to be. With much deliberation, I finally decided I wanted to be something colorful. Who could possibly be more colorful than the bird Kevin from the Pixar movie UP? No one I could think of! I first found the corset online, and it happened to come … Read more
We decided to dress up as the characters of Monsters Inc. I was Celia Mae, my husband was Sully, my son was Mike and my daughter was Boo. Well we had to figure out how to make my costume and my daughters costume since they don’t sell these. I purchased a large purple puffy jacket … Read more
This is my husband, daughter, and me. We made these costumes from home. My daughter’s hot air balloon was made from things we found at home. A box, construction paper, glitter, and a glue gun. As for my husband we went out and bought him a dress at the second hand store and made him … Read more
I absolutely LOVE Halloween. I love it so much that my wedding was on October 30th! This year for our third anniversary we wanted a fun couples costume. I had just been to Disney for the Not So Scary Halloween Party and was inspired by the disney characters. My husband’s only request was that he … Read more
It was less than 2 months away to my son’s first birthday and I still had no idea what the theme party would be. One evening while switching channels, Disney Pixar’s Up was on TV. I’ve seen the movie several times and am a huge fan; and then it clicked! The Russell character would be … Read more
I got the idea to do Monsters Inc when my 2 year old daughter was screaming and I found myself wondering if the lights were going to start flickering. I realized she sounded just like “Boo” and was the perfect age to use that as a costume for Halloween. Then I decided to have my … Read more
We are huge fans of Monster’s Inc. and when the Disney store sold out of the costume size for my son I decides to make his costume and what started as a simple costume idea long sleeve onesie, leggings, and some colored dye well, it became more twelve hours to make his costume hand made, … Read more
Here is Woody and Slinky Dog from the infamous Toy Story series! We stole the show at both of the costume contests we attended- winning first prize each time. The head was made by covering a yoga workout ball with (hundreds of strips of) paper mâché and then painted. The mouth was tricky. We took … Read more